Mikey Mohan

Research Areas

Interests

LiDAR & UAV remote sensing, regenerating forests, tropical forest disturbances, forest carbon management, climate change-driven droughts

Contact Information

mid_mohan@berkeley.edu

Links

Google Scholar Link

Biography

Mikey is a Ph.D. candidate at the Geography Department at UC Berkeley and in parallel, he works as a Graduate Student Researcher at Berkeley Lab/LBNL and as a Program Manager/Team Lead at the United Nations Volunteering Program (MDF Papua New Guinea). His current research primarily focuses on the applications of remote sensing data (such as NASA GEDI space-borne LiDAR, airborne LiDAR, UAV imagery, and/or open-source optical data) and statistical/machine learning methods for understanding how regenerating tropical forests respond (e.g. carbon sequestration capacity, growth rates, etc.) to climate change-induced droughts (e.g., El Niño) in the Brazilian Amazonia. Another interesting fact about Mikey is that he embraces changing living environments and espouses a nomadic lifestyle; he has been to over 30+ countries in the past decade and has enjoyed living alongside diverse communities in Chile, Mexico, Thailand, Spain, and India among others.

Selected Publications

Mohan, M., Richardson, G., Gopan, G., Aghai, M. M., Bajaj, S., Galgamuwa, G. P., ... & Cardil, A. (2021). UAV-supported forest regeneration: Current trends, challenges and implications. Remote Sensing, 13(13), 2596.

Mohan, M., Rue, H. A., Bajaj, S., Galgamuwa, G. P., Adrah, E., Aghai, M. M., ... & Cardil, A. (2021). Afforestation, reforestation and new challenges from COVID-19: Thirty-three recommendations to support Civil Society Organizations (CSOs). Journal of Environmental Management, 287, 112277.

Mohan, M., Leite, R. V., Broadbent, E. N., Jaafar, W. S. W. M., Srinivasan, S., Bajaj, S., ... & Cardil, A. (2021). Individual tree detection using UAV-lidar and UAV-SfM data: A tutorial for beginners. Open Geosciences, 13(1), 1028-1039.

Mohan, M., de Mendonça, B. A. F., Silva, C. A., Klauberg, C., de Saboya Ribeiro, A. S., de Araújo, E. J. G., ... & Cardil, A. (2019). Optimizing individual tree detection accuracy and measuring forest uniformity in coconut (Cocos nucifera L.) plantations using airborne laser scanning. Ecological Modelling, 409, 108736.

Mohan, M., Silva, C. A., Klauberg, C., Jat, P., Catts, G., Cardil, A., ... & Dia, M. (2017). Individual tree detection from unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) derived canopy height model in an open canopy mixed conifer forest. Forests, 8(9), 340.

Teaching Experience

Teaching assistant, Geography 185 (Earth System Remote Sensing), UC Berkeley, Spring 2022

Teaching assistant, Geography 40 (Introduction to Earth System Science), UC Berkeley, Fall 2021